Broadband Hack to Increase the Speed of your Internet Connection

It is possible to increase the download and upload speed of your Internet connection without paying extra money to your Internet Service Provider (ISP) On your PC. I believe you are familiar with difference between bandwidth and speed of a connection. An end user cannot improve the ISP allotted Internet bandwidth without their permission but it is possible to increase Internet connection speed by simple broadband hacking. Here we use methods like reducing the reserved bandwidth limit set by Windows and optimizing TCP/IP settings to improve the data connection speed on a PC. Let us check each of these steps in detail.

Improve Upload and Download Speed On a PC

1. Remove Reserved Bandwidth limit on your computer
   
   Windows OS keeps 20% of Internet connection bandwidth as a reserve for applications running on the computer. If you remove this reservation, you can add the unused 20% to the current speed you are enjoying. In order to do this, you have to edit group policy edit and change the reserve from default 20% to 0%. Follow the steps below to perform this.
   
   
   • Type gpedit.msc on Run and click OK
     
     
   • Select Computer Configuration and go to Administrative Templates
     
     
   • Click on Network
     
     
   • Double Click on QoS Packet Scheduler
     
     
     
     Now the "Limit Reservable Bandwidth" Window opens and you can see it as not configured. If you read the note there you can see "If you disable this setting or do not configure it, the system uses the default value of 20 percent of the connection." We have to enable this and change the default 20% to 0%. This will increase your broadband speed of up to 20%.
     
     
     
   • Reboot your computer after closing the window.
   
   After completing this step, you can see an improvement on broadband speed on your computer.
   
   
2. Perform a Power Cycle
   
   Synchronization issues between network devices can slow down the entire LAN. To remove any such chances and speedup your network, I recommend a power cycle if you feel you are getting slower connection than you expect. If you do not know how it is done, I suggest you visit the link below.
   How to Perform Power Cycle
   
   
3. Remove Temp files and cache
   
   It is advised to delete temp files and browser cache stored on your laptop occasionally to remedy slower connectivity.
   How to Delete Temp files
   
   
4. Prevent Unauthorized Users
   
   If you are using Wireless network, it is better to make sure there is no Internet sharing with unauthorized users. To ensure this you have to use the best wireless key encryption to protect your wireless LAN from hackers and intruders.
   
   
5. Make sure no unwanted Programs consuming Internet Bandwidth
   
   Many users complained about getting slower Internet connection than the ISP offered. After checking their computer, we found many background programs consuming considerable portion of their broadband bandwidth. One example is torrent (peer to peer software). After denying Internet access to those applications, users feel better data transfer rate.
   
   
   
6. Make sure Network components are working fine
   
   Faulty switch, Ethernet cable, modem etc can slow down a network. So you should check your network devices thoroughly and make sure they are working fine.
   
   
7. Make sure no Network worms and malicious programs running
   
   Malicious programs like network worm etc can consume the bandwidth. So you have to run a periodic security scan to avoid malicious infections.
   
   
8. TCP/IP Optimizing
   
   Another tweak is to optimize default TCP/IP system settings. There is a third party tool which automatically optimizes system TCP/IP settings. It changes the Windows registry value for the optimum performance. Download link is given below.
   http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php
   
   TCP Optimizer works by tuning up all the important TCP/IP parameters (MTU, RWIN,QoS,ToS/Diffserv prioritization). It optimizes the TCP/IP suite for better MTU and so the stateful connections(eg:video streaming, downloads) will be faster.
   

Check the Influence of The Above Mentioned Tweaks


This picture shows my old broadband speed before following the steps mentioned above.


The two things we need to notice are download and upload speed.
Download: 0.46
Upload : 0.24

See the difference after following the above steps;



Download: 1.00

Upload : 0.44

By analyzing the result, we can see the improvement on upload and download rate after performing the simple system tweaks. If you are not interested to install any third party tool on your laptop, you may avoid the TCP/IP optimizer and follow the rest of the instructions.

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